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The king was stirred with these words, and said vnto the patriarch,
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed
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The authors of the new Canons are: Christodulos, sixty-sixth patriarch, 1047-77; Cyrillus II, sixty-seventh patriarch, 1078-î; Macarius, sixty-ninth patriarch,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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It began with the submission of the Nestorian patriarch,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Michael Palæologus was hardly dead (1282) when his son Andronicus undid all that he had accomplished, and even denied religious burial to his father; moreover, the Catholic patriarch,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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He was therefore next made syncellus (that is, secretary) of the patriarch,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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In 1031 Görz passed to the Eppenstein family of Carinthia, and thence in 1090 to the Counts of Lurn, who in 1202, by arrangement with the patriarch,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The Church shared the fate of the State, and the last Bulgarian patriarch,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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As I stood in the door and looked at the old patriarch,
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Under the ministering care of Beatrice and the patriarch,
Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906
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Still keeping in his hands Les Délices, he purchased in 1758 the château and demesne of Ferney on French soil, and became a kind of prince and patriarch,
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878
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